{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-post-js","path":"/oaxacan-dreamscapes-the-vivid-and-fantastical-worlds-of-karla-wong/","result":{"pageContext":{"postId":171410,"title":"Oaxacan Dreamscapes: The Vivid and Fantastical Worlds of Karla Wong","author":{"name":"admin","avatar":{"url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9af25ed0fd46963a99e46b0b36a0ced8?s=96&d=mm&r=g"}},"colourFeatureImage":"[32,65,113]","excerpt":"Mexican artist Karla Wong creates vivid oil paintings that braid together Oaxacan influences, her Chinese heritage and her experience as a trans woman living between the U.S. and Mexico.","metadata":{"lowresImages":null},"date":"2026-09-28T20:00:30","slug":"oaxacan-dreamscapes-the-vivid-and-fantastical-worlds-of-karla-wong","link":"/oaxacan-dreamscapes-the-vivid-and-fantastical-worlds-of-karla-wong/","categories":{"nodes":[{"name":"Art","slug":"art","link":"https://inspgr.id/category/art/"}]},"content":"<p>Mexican artist <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lickarlawong/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Karla Wong</a> creates vivid oil paintings that braid together Oaxacan influences, her Chinese heritage and her experience as a trans woman living between the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Veracruz, Karla spent much of her adolescence and early adulthood in Oaxaca, where she studied law before working for a decade as a forensic and witness sketch artist. Reconstructing faces from descriptions demanded a particular kind of imagination, an experience that continues to inform the fantastical figures she paints today.</p>\n<p>Her richly detailed compositions feature elaborately dressed women, skeletal figures, birds, alebrijes and strange hybrid creatures. Victorian-inspired garments mingle with traditional Oaxacan clothing, surrounded by checkerboard floors, floating balloons, twisting staircases and mysterious archways that suggest dreamlike passages between different worlds.</p>\n<p>Her latest body of work is presented in <em>Journeys of Being</em>, a solo exhibition at Chicago’s Intuit Art Museum, on view through January 10, 2027.</p>\n<p>For more of Karla Wong’s work, follow her on <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lickarlawong/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a> and learn more about the <em>Journeys of Being</em> exhibition at the <a href=\"https://art.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Intuit Art Museum</a>.</p>\n<p>More art on the grid <a href=\"https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/karla-wong-surreal-paintings-intuit-chicago/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">via 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